When Josephine Turner Lewis was born on 5 September 1875, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, her father, Noah Lewis, was 62 and her mother, Mary A Hyde, was 28. She married Henry Theodore Myers on 13 February 1896, in Mount Ulla, Rowan, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Unity, Rowan, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States in 1948. She died on 28 August 1948, in Butner, Granville, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Butner, Granville, North Carolina, United States.